Sorry, I shouldn't keep using that other thread since we are no
longer talking about the original subject. Anyway...
Now that I'm using my own macro (DF) to generate the equated bit
mask, how does the assembler community feel about using expression-3 in
the EQUate instruction to define a custom data type that is not one of the
28 IBM-defined data types? The manual states that this value can be 0 to
255.
Do I want to require that the DF macro be used if you're going to
use the SF, CF, and TF macros -- by testing for a unique data type
assigned by the DF macro? If so, any guidelines for selecting a unique
data type designation?
Note that the programmer would still be able to use whatever
format (binary, hexadecimal, character, numeric, etc) for the bit mask
operand of the DF macro, but the DF macro would assign its own (override
the) data type for the resulting equated bit mask.
Sincerely,
Dave Clark
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